An alleged Sinaloa cartel leader who was wanted by US authorities on suspicion of operating the “world’s largest known fentanyl production network” was killed by the Mexican military on Sunday.

Pedro Inzunza Coronel, better known under the alias “El Pichón,” allegedly attacked members of the Mexican Navy during a drug raid in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, Omar Garcia Harfuch, Mexico’s security secretary, wrote on X .

Harfuch wrote that Coronel “lost his life” during the raid, though the exact manner of his death is unclear.

In May, the US Department of Justice charged Coronel and his father, Pedro Inzunza Noriega, with narco-terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering committed while the pair ran the Beltran Leyva Organization, a faction with the Sinaloa cartel that has sinc

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